The osiers grown in the vicinity of St Quentin supply an active basket-making industry.
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Some of them were baptized; the territory which was afterwards known as the duchy of Normandy was ceded to them; but the story of the marriage of their chief Rollo with a sister of the king, related by the chronicler Dudo of Saint Quentin, is very doubtful.
Aisne is divided into five arrondissements - St Quentin and Vervins in the north, Laon in the centre, and Soissons and CIA, teau-Thierry in the south - and contains 37 cantons and 841 communes.
Another group in the north of France has its centres at Lille, Tourcoing, Roubaix, St Quentin and Amiens.
